The largest ethnic minority in Yunnan is the Yi.
Yunnan is the province with the most ethnic groups in my country. In addition to the Han nationality, the ethnic minorities that have lived for generations include the Yi, Hani, Bai, Dai, Zhuang, Miao, Hui, Lisu, etc. Among them, the Yi nationality has the largest population. . The Yi people are the sixth largest ethnic minority in China. Their national language is Yi, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It has 6 dialects: northern, eastern, southern, southeastern, western and central, including 5 sub-dialects. , 25 dialects.
The Yi people are mainly distributed among the plateaus and coastal hills of the four provinces (regions) of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi. They are mainly concentrated in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun. The Liangshan Yi people The autonomous prefecture is the largest Yi inhabited area in the country. According to the "China Statistical Yearbook-2021", the population of the Yi ethnic group in China is 9,830,327.
Yi Literature
The Yi folk literature has various forms and rich content, including poetry, myths, legends, fairy tales, fables, proverbs and riddles. Most of them are oral literature widely circulated among the people. Epic poems include "Leotei", "Mamutei", "Axi's Xianji", "Southwestern Yi Zhi", and "Hayidigu" "Megor", "Chamu", etc. Representative works of narrative and lyrical poems include "My First Cousin", "Mother's Daughter", "Ashima", "A Pair of Rainbows", "Escape to Sweetness" place" etc.
Folk stories and legends reflect the social content and different characteristics of a certain historical period. For example, "The Story of the Flood" and "The Origin of Everything" reflect the Yi people's understanding of the origin of mankind, and "Pegasus" , "Luo Mu Azhi" and other works extol the wisdom and wit of working people. There are a large number of mythological stories in folk tales, such as "King Nine Points", "Adajiru", "The Origin of the Cow" and so on. Fairy tales and fables have a wide range of themes, are short and powerful, have strange imagination and profound implications, such as "The Silent Water of the God" and so on.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Yi Nationality